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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 77 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 27 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

575 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

10,080 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

140 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

2,395 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

2,234 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

16C / 32T · 5.00 GHz

42,720 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

16C / 32T · 5.60 GHz

3,518

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

16C / 32T · 5.00 GHz

22,910

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD Ryzen 9000 (17)
Architecture	M2	Granite Ridge (Zen 5)
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	16 / 32
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	16x Zen 5 4.30 - 5.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		192.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth		94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
TDP	20 W	200 W
TDP (PL2)		270 W
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q2/2022	Q2/2026
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (111 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has received 4.9 stars (7 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
16C / 32T · 4.30 - 5.60 GHz

★★★★★